Thornton Wilder Quotes

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!

But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.